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Show ERGEPMFS s G C has before ¢ and 7 the found o J confonant founds uniformly like the foft g, and is therefor a letter ufelefs, except in etymology, as ¢jaculation, jefter, jocund /; as fiucerely, centrick, cen tury, circular, ciftern, city, ficcity : before a, o, and #, it found like 4, as calmy concavity, copper, incorporatey curiofity, concupif- Juice cence C might be omitted in the language without lofs, fince one of its founds migh be fupplied by /; and the other by #, but that it preferves to the eye the etymolog K K has the found of hard¢, and is ufed before ¢ an 7, where according to Englifh analogy, ¢ would be foft, as Aepr, hing Jhirt, fheptick, for fo it fhould be written, not fzeprick, becaufe f . Ch has a found which is analyfed into #4, as church, chin, is founded like /; as in feene of words, as face from facies, captive from captivus erutch. It is the fame found which the Italians give to the fimple before i and e, as cirta, cerro b is founded like # in words derived from the Greek, a chymift, Jecheme, choler Arch is commonly founded ar# before It is ufed before u, as knell, knot, but totally Iofes its foun nunciation in modern pro is never doubled; but ¢ is ufed before it to fhorten th vowel, as archangel ; and with the Englifh found of ¢/ before a vowel by a double confonant, as cickle, pickle confonant, as archbifbop bC;, in fome French words not yet affimilated, founds like /b, as machine 7 k ehaife C is now mute calves could It is ufed before r, as draw, drofs; and 7w, as dwell F F, though having a name beginning with a vowel, is num Le at the end of words is pronounced like a weak ¢/, in whic the ¢ is almoft mute, as table, fouttle that of is fometimes fpoken nearly as ov the othe At the end of a word it is always hard, ring, /rug, fong, Jfrog Before ¢ and ; the found is uncertain G before ¢ is {oft as gem, generation excep in gear, geld geefe, get, gewgaw, and derivatives from words ending in g, a Singing, fironger, and generally before ¢r at the end of words, a nger f Hsds alwap may be added Egypr and gypfey Gb, in the beginning of a word, has the {found of the hard g as ghoftly ; in the middle, and fometimes at the end, it is quit filent, as though, right, fought, fpoken tho', rite, foute It has often at the end the found of £, as Jaugh, whence laugh ter retains the fame found in the middle; cough, trough, fough gough, enough, flough It is not to be doubted, but that in the origina pronunciation gh ha Scotch G is ufed before 5, /, and 7 P P has always the fame . found, which the Welth and German confound with B P is fometimes mute, as in p/a/m, and between 7 and #, a tempt P} is ufed for Fin words derived" from the Greek, as philofo Q , as in other languages, is alway foun which our Saxo followed by #, and has anceftors well exprefle by cp, cw quadrant, quecn, equeftrian, gzzilt, enquiry, quire, quotidian never followed by a is 9y is fometimes founded, in words derived from the French like 4, as conquer, liguor, rifgue, chequer R " R has the fame rough fnarling found as in other tongues The Saxons ufed often to put 5 before it, as before / at the beginning H H is a note of afpiration, and fhows that the following vowel wit N the force of a confonant, deeply guttural, which is fill continued among th pronounce soimon N is fometimes mute after m, as damn, condemn, hymi G before ; is hard, as give, except in giant, gigantic, gibbet gibe, giblets, Giles, gill, gilliflower, gin, gingery gingle, to whic muft b borfe pher, philanthropy, Philip is mute before #, as gnafp, fign, foreign M he fam found, faeslasos (ound a8 N has always the fame found, as noble, manners G has two founds, one hard, as in gay, go, gun {oft, as in gem, giant o ac The Saxons, who delighted in' guttural founds, fometimes afpirated the / a the beginning of words, as Llap, a Joaf; or bread; hlapopd, a lord; but thi pronunciation is now difufed bered by the grammarians among the {femi-vowels ; yet has thi quality of a mute, that it is commodioufly founded before liquid, as flaf, fly, freckle It has an unvariable found, excep ) ;m' is fometimes mute, as in calf,. balf, halves would, [honld, pfalm, talk, falmon, falcon Is uniform in its found, as death, diligent to give force cording to the analogy of our language, to the foregoing vowel Do- o i grew filent, and was afterwards omitted, the // was retained e, liquid Touid s in ocher language The cuftom is to double the 7 at the end of monofyliables, as kill, will, S Thefe words were originally written Aille, wille, fulle; and when the e firf 1t is ufed before / and 7, as clock, crofs one 1 Englifh the am C, having no determinate found, according to Englifh orthography, never end a word; therefore we write flick, block, which were originally ficke, blocke, i fuch words L a firon emiflion of breath, as Aat It feldom begins any but the firft {yllable, in which it i always founded with a full breath, except in beir, herb, hoftler bonour, humble, honeft, humour, and their derivatives It fometimes begins middle or final fyllables d b b:fl,dj or derived from the Latiny as compr bendsd compounded as block ymlridbs 'is ufed in words derived from the Greel, as myrrb, myrrbine rheum, rheumatick, rhysmies Re, at the en of fom word derive fro th catarvboys Lati French, is pronounced like a weak er, as theatre, fepulchye o S 8 has 2 hifling found, as fibilation, fifier A fingles feldom ends any word except in the thirdoL perfon of verbs, a Iowes, grows3 and the plural§ of nouns, as trees, bujbes, diffreffes; thchro"‘"'ff} g 1S |